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Movies & Films
About a Boy
Anastasia
Avatar
Babel
Bend It Like Beckham
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brokeback Mountain
Camp Rock
Children of Men
District 9
Donnie Darko
E.T - The Extra-Terrestrial
Forrest Gump
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Happy Feet
Into the Wild
It's a Wonderful Life
Monsoon Wedding
Oliver Twist
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pan's Labyrinth
Requiem for a Dream
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
The Colour Purple
The Pursuit of Happyness
Transamerica
Water
Yolngu Boy
Poems
After Twenty Years by Adrienne Rich
Ambrose by Robbit Sykes
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray
Australia 1970 by Judith Wright
Brothers and Sisters by Judith Wright
Class of 1927 by Gwen Harwood
Clearances by Seamus Heaney
Colour Bar by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Couples by Kate Jennings
Drifters by Bruce Dawe
Father and Child by Gwen Harwood
Kindness by Sylvia Plath
Letting Go - Fay Zwicky
Mother-Right by Adrienne Rich
Refugee Blues by W. H. Auden.
Sunburban Sonnet by Gwen Harwood
The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
The Conquest by les Murray
The Late Ferry by Robert Gray
The Mending Wall by Robert Frost
We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
William Street by Kenneth Slessor
Songs
A Boy's Best Friend - White Stripes
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cookie
Alabama - Neil Young
American Idiot - Green Day
Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
Bengali in Platforms - Morrissey
Black and Blue - Louis Armstrong
Blowin' in the Wind - Boy Dylan
Bohemian Rapsody - Queen
Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly
Chimes of Freedom - Boy Dylan
Chop Suey - System of a Dawn
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Creep - Radiohead
Dead and Gone - T.I. Ft. Justin Timberlake
Dinner at Eight - Rufus Wainwright
Drowning - Hootie and the Blowfish
Dumb - Nirvana
Eleanor Ribgy - The Beatles
Everyday People - Sly and The Famly Stone
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea - The Cure
Going to a Town - Rufus Wainwright
Hook Me Up - The Veronicas
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